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I don't see anything but your name and three external links. Your 404 page shows your e-mail as base64, but it's cut off half the way (or rather bugged out) because of the CSS. From the JS my first guess would be some relation to LGBT. All put into 328 kilobytes. The cert is from Symantec ... and soon to be distrusted by all major browsers. It uses Google Analytics (yuck). Mixed script tags in body and head. No CSP present whatsoever. Same for HSTS. And more things. At least the TLS related problems I would get sorted out first before going online, even for a work in progress.

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This is an unnecessarily aggressive response. That's not how you give good feedback.

I don't find it aggressive. It's honest, without any digressions or trying to be more than a list of mistakes and bad decisions that were made.

It's very opinionated, it offers no help or pointers about how to fix any of the problems, and it wasn't asked for.

> it wasn't asked for.

Well, it was kind of "public" to begin with, so you have to expect that people will tell you what they think about it. I don't see anything wrong in that.

Yeah I was aiming to keep things super minimalistic, I’m just getting started with a web portfolio and I’m still in undergrad. The website was by no means a finished product, not sure what CSP or HSTS are but I’ll look into them. I use cloud flare for the SSL cert so they should update?

What do you mean the JS is related to LGBT? The rainbow animation? The rainbow animation is done by CSS.

Yes, of course. A typo. CSS it is. In my mind I was already at the JS part. Specifically the part about disabling "right clicking" ... which I didn't even end up mentioning.

Hah, with noscript enabled I simultaneously didn't notice the right click disable, but did notice that an animation was still occurring.

Honestly, I didn't even realise those were links at first!

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